Resumen

PRADO SOLAR, Liana Alicia; GONZALEZ REGUERA, Maricela; PAZ GOMEZ, Noelvis  y  ROMERO BORGES, Karelia. The theory Deficit of selfcare: Dorothea Orem, starting-point for quality in health care. Rev. Med. Electron. [online]. 2014, vol.36, n.6, pp. 835-845. ISSN 1684-1824.

Since the beginning, nursery has been considered a social product linked to the art of taking care, therefore  it answers to the necessity of helping people when they are not able enough for giving themselves and the people depending on them, the quality and quantity of care needed for keeping alive, identifying the health problem and real and/or potential necessities of the person, family and community demanding care, generating autonomy or dependence as a consequence of the activity the nurse takes on. The purpose of the article is to asses one of the great theories of the contemporary nursery, approaching in an integral way the influence exerted by this theory in the development of this profession practice in Cuba; for that we reviewed basic literature sources like Models and Theories in Nursery, Conceptual Bases of Professional Nursery, Dorothea Orem´s theory about self care, using theoretical methods to propitiate the understanding and analysis  of the theory of the Deficit of self care, generalizations and relations between the theoretical support and its application of the daily-work praxis of the scientific method in the development of a satisfactory life

Palabras clave : self care; nursery; UMEN theories.

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